people sleep on huf. solid and consistent skating for the same sponsors for so long, i think people take him for granted sometimes. dude is sick.

ae, i was noticing how ill young keith was in the early footage shown in gino's epicly laterds... huf, gino, keenan and the rest of those kids were just out for blood back then, tearing shit. ever see any of the rest of those dudes back then?

thanks **, thought it was fitting... the election day post was supposed to be entitled "catastrophe and the cure" as well but i changed it at the last minute

Great post! I remember skating the green benches at Union Square one day and Huf just cruised in from the street, skated past everyone waiting to hit up the bench, and proceed to float one of the biggest ollies I have ever seen over it. For my friends and I, there wasn’t a bigger skater in SF in the year or so before Non-Fiction dropped.

However, although his part in that video is a classic, at the time there was definitely some disappointment when it came out. I think a lot of folks were expecting more footage from his bowl cut, vans wearing days than the newer footage that made up most of it.

We heard about shit like the nollie 180 heel over the union square bench, so maybe we just had too high of expectations. Always thought there had to be a shit load of unused footage from that era since only a few tricks made it into Non-Fiction and before that, just sporadic stuff in thrasher videos and 411’s.

His tre flip between the blocks at Brown Marble in “Finally” is nothing short of amazing. Pretty telling that you never saw anyone else really do anything of note over it after that.

beat crew, definitely remember the nollie 180 heel over the bench. it ran in a real ad in slap back in the day. funny you brought it up, i've been looking for that ad for like 2 months... actually put off making this post a couple times because of it. still don't know why it never made it to a video.

thanks ae, everybody in here (myself included) is straight-up jealous. any good stories?

peel has good taste.

keith, i'm not sure there was a sponsor in between fun and real. not that i recall. and what... you don't like keith gruber or the meekster!?!

with such a long career and a steadily-bankable deluxe sponsorship, huf has a lot of coverage. Only skater i know to have interviews in TWS, Thrasher, Slap and 2 in Big Brother. agostinho, i'll gather up some more. bowlcut/vans is my favorite huf-era as well.

i've got a lot of stories, but not anything that would be considered WOW type stuff. most of it's the usual "i was there when he did..." or something of the like.

i know you're a big gino fan so i'll give you a gino story:

in the first gino episode of epicly laterd, gino mentions a "contest" that he entered to get a shop sponsor (at 4:06 of the episode). i was at that contest. the contest was basically 20-30 kids with the top 10 kids getting sponsored. gino got first, i got tenth. gino had all the newest and best tricks and had the best STYLE (obviously).

when i found out the deal with the sponsorship, i wasn't too psyched. the shop had a deal with h-street to get boards on the cheap (the shop wouldn't be giving us the boards for free). i didn't like the hell-concave at all on h-street boards, so i stuck to the powell boards that i liked and pretty much deaded my sponsorship with the shop on good terms. it was kind of awesome, the shop gave us these letters outlining the sponsorship terms. i wish i still had it. i wonder if gino still has it...

anyway, i'm guessing gino didn't like it too much either. i'm sure at that point, gino could have gotten boards directly from h-street. having the shop connect would have made things easy too but who knows. i'd say things worked out quite well for him. i hope he's got one more part in him cause he's always been one of my favs too.

I was hanging out with Keith sometime when he first moved to SF. I remember I gave him a ride back to his dorm at SF state and we were wathching Style Wars or maybe Wild Style. We heard a knock on his door and it was one of the security guards at the school. He asked us if we had been outside recently. Apparently they were looking for someone that had done some graffiti on one of the buildings. We said we didn't know anything about it, but meanwhile we're sitting there watching Style Wars and we were even talking about Graffiti and I think I had some markers with me and Keith had some spray paint possibly. Although we didn't do the aforementioned graffiti, we could've easily been busted cause of all the circumstantial evidence. Dumb ass security guard.

My design studio did a website for Keith's store a couple of years ago. That thing was tight!